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How to Fix Error 10016 in Windows Event Viewer

How to Fix Error 10016 in Windows Event Viewer

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Fix DistributedCOM Event ID 10016 Error in Windows 10 and Windows 11

As a big techie, I hate it when my Windows machine doesn’t work perfectly. I think, if I can’t get my computer to work perfectly, what kind of techie am I? Obviously, trying to get everything to work perfectly means spending a lot of time troubleshooting issues that probably don’t cause any major problems with my system.

However, it is still fun and you learn a lot from it. In this article I will talk about how to fix the error that appears in Event Viewer regarding DistributedCOM. I noticed that I had no other errors in my system log except for a few per day with an event ID of 10016. The basic error message was the same:

There was also a CLSID, an APPID, a SID, and something about changing permissions using Component Services.